That’s the headline on a Kimberly Dozier AP story that finds active-duty and retired special operations officers and troops criticizing a group of retired special operators and CIA personnel for their election-season attacks on President Obama.

The group, Special Ops OPSEC (for operational security), says in a selectively edited video that Obama has deliberately leaked classified information about the 2011 SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden and has claimed too much credit for it. The effort recalls the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth smear attacks on Sen. John Kerry’s Vietnam War service — attacks some felt contributed to Kerry’s defeat in the 2004 presidential election.

“Mr. President, you did not kill Osama bin Laden,” Navy SEAL Ben Smith says in the video. “The work that the American military has done killed bin Laden.”

The head of U.S. Special Operations Command sees it differently, Dozier reported.

“Make no mistake about it, it was the president of the United States that shouldered the burden for this operation, that made the hard decisions,” the leader of the raid, Adm. Bill McRaven, said at this summer’s Aspen Security Forum.

Others also chimed in. “This is an unprofessional, shameful action on the part of the operators that appear in the video, period,” U.S. Army Special Forces Maj. Fernando Lujan wrote on his Facebook page, to a chorus of approval from colleagues, according to Dozier.

Tuesday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff indicated that even retired military figures should stay out of politics. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey told reporters aboard his plane en route from Afghanistan and Iraq to the U.S. that the military has a unique role that requires political neutrality, Agence France-Presse reported.

“And one of the things that marks us as a profession in a democracy, in our form of democracy, that’s most important is that we remain apolitical,” Dempsey said. “That’s how we maintain our bond and trust with the American people.”

Obama dismissed the group in a Monday interview with the Virginian-Pilot, saying, “I don’t take these folks too seriously.”

Dozier closed her piece with a quote from a retired SEAL commanding officer.

“They have a good point. I wish there was better OPSEC (operational security), and fewer leaks,” said retired Navy SEAL Capt. Rick Woolard, who commanded several SEAL units. “But I would prefer that SEALs and other special operators would sit down and shut the hell up.”